Up to 50 migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia were "deliberately drowned" when a smuggler forced them into the sea off Yemen's coast, the UN migration agency said Wednesday, calling the incident "shocking and inhumane." The narrow waters between the Horn of Africa and Yemen have been a popular migration route despite Yemen's ongoing conflict. The smuggler forced more than 120 migrants into the sea Wednesday morning as they approached Yemen's coast, the IOM statement said. IOM staffers provided aid for 27 surviving migrants who remained on the beach, while other migrants left. An International Organization for Migration staffer attends to the remains of a deceased migrant on a beach in Yemen.

Source: CBC News August 09, 2017 20:26 UTC